Part 516 - Exhibits 



516.22 

 §516.22 Standard easement (continued). 



PART I - GgNERAL TERMS 



A. Authority . This easement Is acquired by the United States under the 

 authority of Title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985 (Public Law 99- 

 198), as amended by Subtitle C of Title XIV of the Food, Agriculture, 

 Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-624; 104 Stat. 3574- 

 3575; 16 U.S.C. §§ 3821, et seq.)- 



B. Purposes . The purposes of this easement are to effect the referenced 

 Wetland Restoration Agreement, to assvire that equivalent functions and 

 values of a converted wetland are replaced and maintained in order to 

 meet the objectives of the Wetland Conservation Provision and, in 

 particular, to assure that the mitigation/replacement wetland areas 

 identified in this easement will be maintained for the period of the 

 easement as specified in this document. 



C. The Property Encumbered by this Easement. The Easement Area as 

 described and defined below is encumbered with the conservation easement. 

 The Easement Farm as described and defined below is hereby encumbered 

 with a grant to the United States of a right of access across the 

 Easement Farm to the Easement Area (the Easement Area being part of the 

 Easement Farm) : 



1. Easement Area . The property encumbered by this conservation 

 easement is described as follows: 



[Described here by reference to an appended plat C EXE IB IT A) the 

 farmed wetland or the vetland and adjacent buffer to vhich this 

 easement will apply. The easement area may be subdivided to provide 

 for specific conditions applicable to each subdivision if both 

 frequently cropped wetlands and less than frequently cropped 

 wetlands are to be mitigated/replaced on the same parcel.] 



2. Easement Farm . In addition, the Easement Farm is encvunbered with 

 a right of access for/by United States, as described herein, to the 

 Easement Area. The Easement Farm is all of that land conveyed by 

 to the Landowner by deed dated 



, and recorded in Deed Book , at page , in 



the land records of County (Borough, Parish, 



etc), and more specifically described as tollows: 



D. Definitions . For purposes of this easement: 



1. "Wetland Restoration Agreement" (WRA) means an agreement between 

 the Grantor and the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) and the Fish and 

 Wildlife Service (FWS) to mitigate (or replace) wetland values that would 

 be lost as the result of the conversion of another wetland in order for 

 the Grantor to remain eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) 

 farm program benefits under the. Wetland Conservation Provisions of the 

 1985 Food Security Act as amended by the 1990 Food Agriculmre, 

 Conservation and Trade Act. The WRA shall be on file and available for 

 inspection at the county office of the USDA's Agricultural Stabilization 

 and Conservation Service (ASCS) for the coxmty identified above. 



2. 'Easement Area" means that portion or portions of the Easement 

 Farm upon which certain wetland restoration activities are required. The 

 Easement Area is as generally depicted on EXHIBIT A which is attached to 



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 (180-V-NFSAM, Second Ed., Amend. 6, May 1991) 



